Jeff Koberhttps://jeff-kober.com
Meditation, Photography and ActingMon, 21 Jan 2019 05:35:02 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.9The Two Journeys of Man – January 21 2019https://jeff-kober.com/daily-thoughts/the-two-journeys-of-man-january-21-2019/
https://jeff-kober.com/daily-thoughts/the-two-journeys-of-man-january-21-2019/#respondMon, 21 Jan 2019 05:35:02 +0000https://jeff-kober.com/?p=13028At some point of time a great thought will come to us: Let me go and see what is behind all these differences, let me try to understand the One behind the many. That will be the time when our journey will become inward. Till then it is all outward. Swami Ranganathananda from The MessageContinue reading

]]>https://jeff-kober.com/daily-thoughts/the-two-journeys-of-man-january-21-2019/feed/0We are Made of Star-Stuff – January 20 2019https://jeff-kober.com/daily-thoughts/we-are-made-of-star-stuff-january-20-2019/
https://jeff-kober.com/daily-thoughts/we-are-made-of-star-stuff-january-20-2019/#respondSun, 20 Jan 2019 04:34:59 +0000https://jeff-kober.com/?p=13021The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself. Carl Sagan The Upanishads are one of the main sources of Vedic wisdom. The word Upanishad means something like ‘sitting down at the feet/the source of the knowledge.’ Implying the need to empty oneself ofContinue reading

]]>https://jeff-kober.com/daily-thoughts/we-are-made-of-star-stuff-january-20-2019/feed/0Something Missing in My Heart Tonight – January 19 2019https://jeff-kober.com/daily-thoughts/something-missing-in-my-heart-tonight-january-19-2019/
https://jeff-kober.com/daily-thoughts/something-missing-in-my-heart-tonight-january-19-2019/#respondSat, 19 Jan 2019 04:40:05 +0000https://jeff-kober.com/?p=13012If we act to avoid pain (or get a huge enough blast of pleasure to blot out the discomfort) we automatically are identified with the ego. If we act in order to have joy, we identify with the Field. David Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. Being human is an often painful proposition. From the moment weContinue reading

]]>https://jeff-kober.com/daily-thoughts/something-missing-in-my-heart-tonight-january-19-2019/feed/0Everything That Was Broken – January 18 2019https://jeff-kober.com/daily-thoughts/everything-that-was-broken-january-18-2019/
https://jeff-kober.com/daily-thoughts/everything-that-was-broken-january-18-2019/#respondFri, 18 Jan 2019 05:00:34 +0000https://jeff-kober.com/?p=13006Everything that was broken has forgotten its brokenness. I live now in a sky-house, through every window the sun. Also your presence. Our touching, our stories. Earthy and holy both. How can this be, but it is. Every day has something in it whose name is Forever. Mary Oliver, Everything That was Broken, from theContinue reading

]]>https://jeff-kober.com/daily-thoughts/everything-that-was-broken-january-18-2019/feed/0The Man Who Thinks “I Don’t Know” – January 17 2019https://jeff-kober.com/daily-thoughts/the-man-who-thinks-i-dont-know-january-17-2019/
https://jeff-kober.com/daily-thoughts/the-man-who-thinks-i-dont-know-january-17-2019/#respondThu, 17 Jan 2019 03:11:20 +0000https://jeff-kober.com/?p=13001A man who says he knows is already dead. But the man who thinks “I don’t know,” who is discovering, finding out, who is not seeking an end, not thinking in terms of arriving or becoming – such a man is living, and that living is truth. J. Krishnamurti, To Be Human The ego ofContinue reading

]]>https://jeff-kober.com/daily-thoughts/the-man-who-thinks-i-dont-know-january-17-2019/feed/0Silence is the Truth of You – January 16 2019https://jeff-kober.com/daily-thoughts/silence-is-the-truth-of-you-january-16-2019/
https://jeff-kober.com/daily-thoughts/silence-is-the-truth-of-you-january-16-2019/#respondWed, 16 Jan 2019 05:13:03 +0000https://jeff-kober.com/?p=129962% of mind is thought. 98% is the truth of you: silence. David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D Years ago, before I found a meditation that worked for me, my mind was beset with thought. Always. As if I were at the center of a maelstrom of voices, none of them pleasant, or even remotelyContinue reading

]]>https://jeff-kober.com/daily-thoughts/silence-is-the-truth-of-you-january-16-2019/feed/0Everything Is Waiting For You – January 15 2019https://jeff-kober.com/daily-thoughts/everything-is-waiting-for-you-january-15-2019/
https://jeff-kober.com/daily-thoughts/everything-is-waiting-for-you-january-15-2019/#respondTue, 15 Jan 2019 03:48:22 +0000https://jeff-kober.com/?p=12991Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone. As if life were a progressive and cunning crime with no witness to the tiny hidden transgressions. To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings. Surely, even you, at times, have felt the grand array; the swelling presence, andContinue reading

]]>https://jeff-kober.com/daily-thoughts/everything-is-waiting-for-you-january-15-2019/feed/0I Did Not Kiss You Enough – January 14 2019https://jeff-kober.com/daily-thoughts/i-did-not-kiss-you-enough-january-14-2019/
https://jeff-kober.com/daily-thoughts/i-did-not-kiss-you-enough-january-14-2019/#respondMon, 14 Jan 2019 04:01:07 +0000https://jeff-kober.com/?p=12986One regret, dear world, That I am determined not to have When I am lying on my deathbed Is that I did not kiss you enough. Hafiz, from I Heard God Laughing, translated by Daniel Ladinsky One way to enlightenment? Love. Love everything, all the time. This is what David Hawkins advises. This is whatContinue reading

]]>https://jeff-kober.com/daily-thoughts/i-did-not-kiss-you-enough-january-14-2019/feed/0The Human Soul is Divine – January 13 2019https://jeff-kober.com/daily-thoughts/the-human-soul-is-divine-january-13-2019/
https://jeff-kober.com/daily-thoughts/the-human-soul-is-divine-january-13-2019/#respondSun, 13 Jan 2019 06:02:30 +0000https://jeff-kober.com/?p=12976Vedanta claims that the human soul is divine, and that all this that we see around us is the outcome of that consciousness of the divine. Everything that is strong and good and powerful in human nature is the outpouring of that divinity, and though only potential in many, there is no difference between oneContinue reading